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Rh the party uing their utmot endavours to get through the narrows by the same friendly aitance of the natives he had before experienced; which being now no longer required, thee good people returned to their habitations, apparently well atified with the kind offices they had rendered, and the acknowledgments they had received. The boats now ought helter from the inclemency of the weather in a mall cove on the outh ide of thw arm they had quitted, where the ame caue operated to detain them until the morning of the 2d of July, when the time for which they were upplied with proviions being nearly expired, it was deemed mot expedient to return to the hips.

By thee two expeditions the boundary of the continental hore was completely acertained to the above narrow pavage; and the tonget preumption induced that the whole of the coat on our wetern ide, outhward of that paage was compoed of innumerable ilands.

The weather being tolerably fair, Mr. Johntone and Mr. Swaine were the next day again dipatched with a week's proviions, to examine the continental hore through the narrow paage from whence they had returned; by the means of which, and the urvey then proecuting under Lieutenant Pugce and Mr. Whidbey, who were to commence their inquiries in an oppoite point, the whole extent of the gulph would be finally determined; or, in the event of the Indian's information being correct, its further navigable communication to the northward would be dicovered.

By what I had een of the gulph on the evening we entered this found, though its wetern extremity was certainly bonded, yet the appearance of the land in that direction favored the opinion of its being compoed of ilands, though the whole might be united by low land not perceptible at o great a ditance.

On friday afternoon, the officers in the launch and cutter returned, from whom I undertood, that they had found the wetern ide of the gulph of Georgia, from that part oppoite to point Marhall, to be compa{{ls}ct, riing in a gentle acent from the ea hore to the inland mountains, (ome of which were covered with now) wearing a pleaant and fertile appearance; along this hore they continued their route and en-